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AI chips with double the arithmetic! Qualcomm to unveil two new flagship chips tomorrow
Qualcomm has officially announced that it will hold a Snapdragon flagship launch event on March 18, 2024 at 14:30 GMT. The conference will be held under the slogan of "Smart in the core, with the dragon is spiritual", which indicates that there will be powerful new products unveiled. According to industry insiders, Qualcomm plans to release...
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ChatGPT consumes huge amounts of power, and energy consumption in the AI industry is a concern
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, advanced chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT are gradually becoming the center of public attention. However, the latest data shows that the energy consumption of these high-tech products is equally alarming. According to The New Yorker, ChatGPT may consume more than 500,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per day...
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MediaTek Releases MR Breeze-7B, a 7 Billion Parameter Large Language Model: Strong Bilingual Processing Capabilities for Data Insight
MediaTek Research, a renowned research organization under MediaTek, has publicly announced that they have successfully developed and launched a new open-source Large Language Model (LLM), MR Breeze-7B.This model, with its powerful bilingual processing capabilities and data insights characteristics, is leading the artificial...
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Intel plans to supply over 100 million chips for AI PCs in five years
At the latest Mobile World Congress, Intel announced an ambitious plan: by the end of 2025, the company plans to supply more than 100 million chips for AI-enabled PCs. This strategy marks a further expansion of Intel's presence in AI and reflects the fact that AI technology in the PC market...
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NVIDIA Launches RTX 500/1000 Ada AI Graphics Cards to Accelerate AI Computing for Laptops and Workstations
NVIDIA announced on February 26 the new RTX 500 and RTX 1000 series of AI graphics cards designed for laptops and mobile workstations. The series of graphics cards are based on the Ada Lovelace architecture with a built-in Neural Network Computing Unit (NPU) designed to optimize native AI computing performance. The RTX 500 and RTX 1000...
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Samsung wins first 2nm chip order ahead of TSMC
Recently, Samsung Electronics announced that it has successfully secured the first 2nm process AI chip production order from Japanese AI giant Preferred Networks Inc.(PFN), thus taking the lead over TSMC in the competition for 2nm advanced chips.PFN, as a leader in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), has been walking the path of developing cutting-edge AI chips and...
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OpenAI founder seeks U.S. government support to advance chip manufacturing program
OpenAI founder Sam Altman is actively seeking support from the U.S. government to advance his chip manufacturing project, according to people familiar with the matter. This project aims to dramatically increase the global capacity to manufacture cutting-edge computing chips to ensure that large-scale deployment and continued development of artificial intelligence is not disrupted by shortages. In...
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Masayoshi Son plans new battle for AI chips, to compete with Nvidia in the market
SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son is planning a heavy investment in the tech sector. According to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg, Son is looking to raise as much as $100 billion to set up a new AI chip company, a move intended to compete directly with chip giant Nvidia. The project is reportedly...
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Samsung's foundry division makes a major breakthrough: gets orders for 2nm AI chips, and plans to launch lower-priced processes
Recently, TechNews reported that Samsung's foundry division has successfully secured an order for a 2nm AI chip that also includes supporting HBM memory and advanced packaging services. This breakthrough marks Samsung's significant progress in chip manufacturing, further cementing its place in the global semiconductor market...
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NVIDIA's "special offer" H20 chip to China: booking opens, market reaction is lukewarm
According to several recent distributor sources, NVIDIA's H20, an AI chip specially customized for the Chinese market, is now available for pre-order. The chip, created specifically for the Chinese market, marks a further deepening of NVIDIA's technological cooperation with China. The NVIDIA H20 chip is designed as a high-performance AI computing solution in a variety of...
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To reduce costs and increase processing power, Meta plans to deploy new in-house AI inference chips this year
Meta plans to deploy Artemis, a new homegrown AI inference chip designed to run inference workloads, in its data centers this year, which will be used in platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, as well as in devices such as Ray-Ban smart glasses. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in this year's...
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NVIDIA launches "sky-high" AI chips for China, over $100,000 per chip
NVIDIA has begun accepting pre-orders from distributors for its China-specialized AI chip H20, according to sources familiar with the matter.Sources said the H20 does not perform as well as Huawei's Rise AI chip 910B in some key areas.In recent weeks, NVIDIA priced the Chinese H20 distributors at between $12,000 and $15,000 for a single chip. Some distribution...
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Altman, the father of ChatGPT, announced plans to build his own AI chip.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to raise billions of dollars for a chip joint venture to make AI chips in-house to better meet the growing demand for chips and reduce reliance on NVIDIA. The plan has been in talks with several large potential investors, including total part...
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TSMC to mass-produce 2nm chips for Apple in 2025 in next-generation chip arms race
With the rapid development of technology, chip manufacturing technology is also breaking through. According to the latest news, TSMC will begin mass production of 2nm chips for Apple in 2025, and this technology will bring a significant increase in performance and efficiency. It is understood that TSMC is actively promoting the development of the 2nm process node, which is the semiconductor manufacturing technology...
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AI Arithmetic Gets Another Infrastructural Lift as NVIDIA and AMD Release New Graphics Cards
At the recent CES 2024 tradeshow, NVIDIA unveiled its new RTX 40 SUPER series of graphics cards, including the RTX 4080 SUPER, RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, and RTX 4070 SUPER.AMD followed suit with the Radeon RX 7600 XT 16GB graphics card. These new graphics cards in terms of performance and features...
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AMD Introduces First Desktop AI Processor: the Ryzen 8000G Series, Leading a New Chapter in AI Computing
AMD recently announced the Ryzen 8000G series, the first AI central processing unit (CPU) for desktops. This breakthrough product will provide users with powerful AI computing capabilities to meet the growing demand for AI computing. The Ryzen 8000G series chips are expected to be available to DIY customers from January 31, 2024...
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Samsung: focusing on chips and AI for future changes in 2024
Samsung Electronics recently announced its strategic priorities for 2024, emphasizing that it will strengthen the company's competitiveness through technological superiority and adaptability to future changes. Co-CEOs Han Jong-hee and Kyung Gye-hyeon said they will prioritize strengthening basic competitiveness, including super gap technology, and urged Samsung Electronics' chip manufacturing...
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Depletion of natural environmental resources by AIGCs such as ChatGPT needs attention.
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, its application is becoming more and more widespread worldwide. However, the popularity and large-scale application of this technology has also brought about a number of environmental issues, the most concerning of which is the amount of water consumed by AI. According to a recent study, 10 questions asked to ChatGPT or consumed...
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Tsinghua University and Huawei release new technology to increase text input limits for large models
Recently, Tsinghua University and Huawei's research team jointly released a new technology that can improve the limitation of big model text input through semantic compression technology. The introduction of this technology provides a broader scope for the application of big models in the field of text processing. The technique draws inspiration from source coding in information theory...
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Intel's first-generation Core Ultra processors are official: featuring a new architecture and neural network processing unit
Intel recently officially announced the first generation of Core Ultra processors, which utilize a new architecture and manufacturing process designed to improve performance and endurance. Unlike traditional Intel processor architectures, Core Ultra utilizes a split module architecture that includes a compute module, SoC module, graphics...
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Intel unveils next-generation AI datacenter and PC chips, teases Gaudi 3 to surpass H100
Intel announced a series of new AI products at its recent AI Everywhere event, including fifth-generation Xeon processors for the enterprise and Core Ultra chips for personal computers (PCs). At the same time, Intel CEO Kissinger gave the first public introduction of the third-generation Intel AI gas pedal Gau...
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AI performance sees a spike! Intel Announces New Core Ultra Mobile Processors
Intel recently announced the new Core Ultra mobile processor, the first processor built on Intel's 4-process process. The processor features Intel's Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU), which delivers 2.5 times more power-efficient performance than its predecessor. Core Ultra Mobile...
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Graphcore Announces New SparQ Attention Technology to Reduce Memory Bandwidth Performance Requirements for Large Models
Recently, a team of researchers at AI company Graphcore announced a new technique called SparQ Attention on the Arxiv page. The technique aims to reduce the memory bandwidth requirements of large language models, thereby improving the efficiency and performance of the models. The research team says that the SparQ Attention technique works by selectively...
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AMD unveils MI300X, claims performance beyond H100, backed by tech giants
AMD, a world-renowned semiconductor company, recently officially announced its next-generation AI chip, the MI300X.According to AMD, the performance of this AI chip even surpasses that of the industry-leading NVIDIA H100 in some aspects. First of all, the FP8 FLOPS performance of the MI300X is 301 TP3T higher than that of NVIDIA's H100. 30%, which means it's better at handling large...
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AMD Launches New AI Chip, Announces MI300X Accelerator Begins Shipping
UltraMicro Semiconductor (AMD) announced its latest AI chips, the Instinct MI300 series, at the 'Advancing AI' event on Friday. The series includes new products such as MI300A and MI300X, as well as the software and services that go with them. According to AMD, the MI300A has entered mass production, while the M...
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Image generation models are more power-hungry than text generation models, study says
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Hugging Face recently published a study that showed that picture-generating models are more power-hungry than text-generating models. The team measured the energy consumption of different types of generative AI models, including chatbots, text-generation models, and image-generation models...
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NVIDIA releases TensorRT-LLM: H100 GPU inference performance soars 8x, sets another AI arithmetic record
Today, NVIDIA officially announced a major breakthrough with a deep optimization open source library called TensorRT-LLM, which is designed to significantly improve the inference performance of all large language models on its AI GPUs like Hopper. NVIDIA has now actively worked with the open source community to utilize the library, which includes SmoothQuant, F...